ALA Midwinter Discussion Forum - Electronic Newspapers

[Deborah Bezanson <bezanson@gwu.edu>]

Newspapers In The Digital Age

Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Machine Assisted Reference
Service (MARS) Products and Services Discussion Forum Sunday January 16,
9:30-11:30 am, Marriott Copley Place Grand Ballroom C-D

Join us at Midwinter in Boston for a dialogue on content issues and the
future direction of online access to daily newspapers.  Representatives
from major online vendors and a daily newspaper will respond to questions
and discuss the processes involved in creating online databases.  The role
of new scanning technology that allows libraries to offer patrons digital
articles from microfilm collections will also be discussed.

Discussion Panel includes: 

Rod Gauvin, Vice President of Marketing and Publishing for Proquest 
Information and Learning; 
Deborah Harmer, Vice President for Newsbank Media Service; 
John Cronin, the Librarian at the Boston Herald;  
Dawn Conway, Vice President of Content & Business Development for 
LexisNexis and 
Dan Donaldson, Director of Imaging Products at ST Imaging.

Deborah Bezanson
Coordinator, Electronic Resources
Gelman Library, George Washington University
2130 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202)994-1357(v)  (202)463-6205(f)